Human umbilical cord-derived mesenchymal stromal cells protect against premature renal senescence resulting from oxidative stress in rats with acute kidney injury

Table 2 Proportion of long, medium and short telomeres in rat kidneys on D2

Telomere length	Control	IRI	IRI + huMSC
Short telomeres (<8.6 kb) (%)	43.4 ± 9.1	26.9 ± 0.8	26.4 ± 3.2
Medium telomeres (8.6–21.2 kb) (%)	33.5 ± 1.0	42.3 ± 0.6^a	39.3 ± 0.4^a
Long telomeres (>21.2 kb) (%)	23.1 ± 8.1	30.8 ± 0.9	34.3 ± 2.8

IRI ischaemia/reperfusion injury (rats submitted to renal artery clamping for 45 min, followed by 6 h of reperfusion), IRI + huMSC IRI + human umbilical cord-derived mesenchymal stromal cell (rats submitted to IRI and subsequently treated with huMSCs), kb kilobase(s)
^a p < 0.05 vs control

ISSN: 1757-6512